Birthday Challenge Blog Is Up

Birthday Challenges have been going on for a long time. The first I heard of them were through Jack LaLanne. I started doing my own in the mid 80s, which you can read about here (add link by clicking on the hyperlink icon above and adding your link.)

Since I set this site up they've become a lot more creative. Here are some good examples:Reed 2000Todd 2001

But the point, really, is to challenge yourself. "Hard" is relative and truly only means hard for you. Running a marathon may be a warm up for Catra, but is an epic undertaking for most people. A birthday challenge is worthy as long as it's hard for you. It really doesn't matter what it's like for anyone else.

1 comment:

Anonymous
said...

I'm sold. I'll try it. I just have to think of something extremely hard so I can then appreciate all the ridiculously mundane, trivial and weighty trials of life. Lance said it took cancer to appreciate life. Maybe I'll have lunch with my boss...every day for a week.

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